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Font of Merged Fields

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Eric asked on 26 Mar 2013, 02:57 PM

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Hello,
I am having an issue regarding setting the font of a merged field when exporting to HTML. In my application, the RichTextBox sets its default font to Verdana 12pt. I change it to Arial 11pt. All the fonts in my document appear to be Arial 11 (See editor.jpg).

This document is then exported to HTML. When I inspect the generated html code, the merge field is never set to Arial 11, it stays as Verdana (see generatedhtml.jpg). As a result, the HTML file does not look correct (see htmloutput.jpg).

How can I get the merged field text to respect the font change?

Thank you.

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answered on 22 Apr 2013, 08:58 AM

Hello,
I finally had an opportunity to upgrade all of our controls to the latest version, and am still experiencing this issue. When the control first loads, the font is Verdana. I change it to Arial and then type out all of the text inserting required merged fields as I go along. I am then exporting the document as HTML and sending in an email.

When I receive the email all of my added text is in Arial, however the merged fields are still in Verdana. Below is the html I receive. In here you can see the embedded styles for both Verdana and for Arial. I do not know why the Verdana one is there at all.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"[]>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled</title>

<style type="text/css">

p { margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 10px;line-height: 1.14999997615814; }

body { font-family: 'Verdana';font-size: 16px; }

.p_AD45AF3A { margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 10px;line-height: 1.14999997615814; }

.s_903713FB { font-family: 'Arial';font-size: 16px; }

.s_D3FCB7B8 { font-family: 'Verdana';font-size: 16px; } </style>

</head>

<body>

<p class="p_AD45AF3A">

<span class="s_903713FB">Testing font in merged fields. Everything should be Arial in here.</span>

</p>

<p class="p_AD45AF3A">

<span class="s_903713FB">Dear </span>

<span class="s_D3FCB7B8">Rory</span>

<span class="s_903713FB"></span>

<span class="s_D3FCB7B8">McTory</span>

<span class="s_903713FB"> ,</span>

</p>

<p class="p_AD45AF3A">

<span class="s_903713FB">This should all be Arial.</span>

</p>

<p class="p_AD45AF3A">

<span class="s_903713FB"> </span>

</p>

<p class="p_AD45AF3A">

<span class="s_903713FB"> </span>

</p>

</body>

</html><DIV id=cbftr align=center><BR><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD align = "center" ><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">This email was sent to / Ce courriel a été envoyé à </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">seanriedel@conservative.ca</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">.</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center" ><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">Email communications from / Communications électroniques de la part de:</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center" ><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">Conservative Party of Canada, #1204 - 130 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1P 5G4, <BR>Parti conservateur du Canada - 130 rue Albert, bureau 1204, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 5G4.</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px"> </SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center" ><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">Click for immediate removal with / Veuillez cliquer afin d'être supprimé</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD align = "center" ><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">immédiatement de notre liste à l'aide de </SPAN><A href=

"http://software.clickback.com/external_pages/opt_out.aspx?lwjtoknmninvojnqnmnlnmntlhnknwnvoknmojonniolnqonnmjvnknijtkqkikpkkkojtkhjtkikhkqkqkqknjtkjkjkjkpkijtkkkikhkikhkokkkojtkjjtkkkikhkikhkokkkojtkqkikpkkko"

><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">Safe<IMG border=0 src="http://software.clickback.com/images/letter.gif">Remove</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px">.</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><br /><div align=center><br><br><table width='600' cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td align = "center" rowspan=5 colspan=2 valign=bottom><span style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;'></span></td></tr>

</table><img height=1 width=1 src=

'http://software.clickback.com/external_pages/logo.aspx?mnjtoknmninvojnqnmnlnmntlhnknwnvoknmojonniolnqonnmjvnknijtkqkikpkkkojtkhjtkikhkqkqkqknjtkjkjkjkpkijtkkkikhkikhkokkkojtkjjtkkkikhkikhkokkkojtkqkikpkkko'

></div>

And here is the code we use to export the document to html:

private void UploadDocument()

{

int count = 0;

string imageFileName = initiativeRunId.ToString() + "_{0}.{1}";

string newFileName = string.Empty;

exportFileName = initiativeRunId.ToString() + ".html";

HtmlFormatProvider exporter = new HtmlFormatProvider();

HtmlExportSettings settings = new HtmlExportSettings()

{

ImageExportMode = ImageExportMode.ImageExportingEvent

};

settings.ImageExporting += (s, e) =>

{

count++;

newFileName = string.Format(imageFileName, count.ToString(), e.Image.Extension);

newFileNames.Add(newFileName, e.Image.RawData);

e.Src = newFileName;

e.Alt = "image";

};

settings.StylesExportMode = StylesExportMode.Classes;

settings.ExportFontStylesAsTags = true;

settings.DocumentExportLevel = DocumentExportLevel.Document;

settings.StyleRepositoryExportMode = StyleRepositoryExportMode.DontExportStyles;

exporter.ExportSettings = settings;

using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())

{

string exported = exporter.Export(radDocument);

content = AddCustomPropertyToHyperlink(exported);

}

UploadImages();

}

Please let me know if you require any more information.

Thanks.

answered on 25 Apr 2013, 02:06 PM

Hello Eric,

I made some tests with your code and I am still unable to reproduce the described behavior. The result is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled</title>

<style type="text/css">

p {

margin-top: 0px;

margin-bottom: 12px;

line-height: 1.15;

}

body {

font-family: 'Verdana';

font-size: 16px;

}

.p_6AAD5060 {

margin-top: 0px;

margin-bottom: 12px;

line-height: 1.15;

}

.s_903713FB {

font-family: 'Arial';

font-size: 16px;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<p class="p_6AAD5060">

<span class="s_903713FB">Dear </span>

<span class="s_903713FB">Andrew</span>

<span class="s_903713FB"></span>

</p>

</body>

</html>

Can you please prepare a simple working demo solution reproducing the problem and attach it to a support ticket so we can investigate the problem further. Please notice that you can attach archives only to tickets and not to forum threads.

All the best,
Mihail
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Font of Merged Fields

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